Femme Fatale is a 2002 film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars Rebecca Romijn and Antonio Banderas. It won a Seattle Film Critics Award for Best Editing, and was nominated at the Catalonian International Film Festival for Best Film.

Laure Ash (Rebecca Romjin) is an international con artist involved in a spectacular diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. However, she has a plan of her own, and keeps the diamonds for herself. Ash flees to Paris where she takes over the identity of a woman who commits suicide.

After seven years, Ash has again shifted identity, and is now the wife of the new American ambassador to France. She is drawn back to her past when Spanish photographer Nicholas Bardo (Antonio Banderas) takes her picture. This sets the stage for a thrilling, erotic scheme to cover her past identity.

• Rebecca Romijn as Laure

• Antonio Banderas as Nicolas Bardo

• Coyote as Watts

• Eriq Ebouaney as Black Tie

• Edouard Montoute as Racine

• Rie Rasmussen as Veronica

• Thierry Fremont as Serra

• Gregg Henry as Shiff

• Fiona Curzon as Stanfield Phillips

• Daniel Milgram as Pierre

"It's a sexy, violent, glamorous, sinfully funny movie with a surface as hard and brilliant as diamonds."—Charles Taylor, Salon.comhttp://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/11/06/femme_fatale/index.html

"The film has the high-buffed gloss and high-octane jolts you expect of De Palma, but what makes it transporting is that it's also one of the smartest, most pleasurable expressions of pure movie love to come from an American director in years."—Manohla Dargis, "Los Angeles Times"http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-dargis6nov06,0,386416.story